Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Helena GRICE: “The beginning is hers”: The Political and Literary Legacies of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan
Cynthia F. WONG: Asymmetries: Loss and Forgiveness in the Novels of Amy Tan
A. Robert LEE: Bad Boy, Godfather, Storyteller: The China Fictions of Frank Chin
Deborah L. MADSEN: Bearing the Diasporic Burden: Representations of Suicide in SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone, and Hsu-Ming Teo’s Love and Vertigo
Rocío G. DAVIS: Chinatown as Diaspora Space in SKY Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café and Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony
Mary CONDÉ: Canadian Border Crossings: Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai
Nicholas BIRNS: The Earth’s Revenge: Nature, Transfeminism and Diaspora in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl
Nicholas BIRNS: Diaspora Beyond Millenium: Brian Castro, Ouyang Yu, and Chinese Australia
Elaine YEE LIN HO: Childhood and The Cultural Memory of Hong Kong: Martin Booth’s Gweilo and Po Wah Lam’s The Locust Hunter
Robbie B. H. GOH: The Anxiety of Influences: Dis-Locating Authority, Culture and Identity in the Novels of Colin Cheong
Robbie B. H. GOH, Writing “The Global” in Singapore Anglophone Fiction: Language, Vision and Resonance in Hwee Hwee Tan’s Fiction
Laura HALL: The Shit Hits The Fan: Timothy Mo’s New World Disorder
Diana YEH: Contested Belongings: The Politics and Poetics of Making a Home in Britain
Wenche OMMUNDSEN: From China With Love: Chick Lit and The New Crossover Fiction
Notes on Contributors

About the Author

A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998), Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award for 2004, Japan Textures: Sight and Word, with Mark Gresham (2007), and Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (2008).